mysql_ssl A true value turns on the CLIENT_SSL flag when connecting to the MySQL database: mysql_ssl=1 --------> specified in command

This means that your communication with the server will be encrypted.

Please note that this can only work if you enabled SSL when compiling DBD::mysql; this is the default starting version 4.034. See DBD::mysql::INSTALL for more details.

If you turn mysql_ssl on, you might also wish to use the following flags: mysql_ssl_client_key ----> not required for connection but I'm not sure is it mandatoray in perl mysql_ssl_client_cert ----> not required for connection but I'm not sure is it mandatoray in perl mysql_ssl_ca_file --------> specified in command mysql_ssl_ca_path mysql_ssl_cipher These are used to specify the respective parameters of a call to mysql_ssl_set, if mysql_ssl is turned on.